"""The New Yorker"" dismissed the film as ""an Alfred Hitchcock picture that makes you wonder what has happened to the man ... As the heiress, Grace Kelly is very pretty. She does not, presumably, try to act."" ""The Monthly Film Bulletin"" wrote, ""Even a comedy thriller needs considerably more in the way of plain excitement and tension than ""To Catch a Thief"" provides, and Hitchcock's celebrated habit of playing tricks with the audience ... seem a poor substitute for the real thing."" ""The Guardian"" called the film ""a thorough disappointment,"" writing that Hitchcock had ""failed so completely that one can"
"The King's Thief The King's Thief is a 1955 swashbuckling CinemaScope adventure film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who replaced Hugo Fregonese during filming. Released on August 5, 1955, the film takes place in London at the time of Charles II and stars Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, David Niven, George Sanders and Roger Moore. James (Niven), the Duke of Brampton and the richest man in England, is so trusted by King Charles II (Sanders), he is able to have two of the King's loyal friends executed for treason. The second is the father of Lady Mary (Blyth). She travels from"
"became ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"" in 1962, and NBC broadcast the final episode on 10 May 1965. In the 1980s, a new version of ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" was produced for television, making use of Hitchcock's original introductions in a colourised form. In 1955 Hitchcock became a United States citizen. The same year, his third Grace Kelly film, ""To Catch a Thief"", was released; it is set in the French Riviera, and pairs Kelly with Cary Grant. Grant plays retired thief John Robie, who becomes the prime suspect for a spate of robberies in the Riviera. A thrill-seeking American heiress played"
"in a movie set in the 1950s. In 2011, the novel was dramatized as a ""Saturday Play"", which was broadcast on 8 January on BBC Radio 4. To Catch a Thief (novel) To Catch a Thief is a 1952 thriller novel by David F. Dodge. The scene is the French Riviera, and the time is 1951. In August 1951, French police come to arrest American John Robie at his villa in Vence near the Côte d'Azur. He escapes, leaping over the garden wall. In the late 1930s, Robie was a daring, supremely athletic burglar, known as ""Le Chat"" (""the cat""),"
"To Catch a Thief (novel) To Catch a Thief is a 1952 thriller novel by David F. Dodge. The scene is the French Riviera, and the time is 1951. In August 1951, French police come to arrest American John Robie at his villa in Vence near the Côte d'Azur. He escapes, leaping over the garden wall. In the late 1930s, Robie was a daring, supremely athletic burglar, known as ""Le Chat"" (""the cat""), who specialized in jewel thefts from hotels and villas on the French Riviera. He was caught and sent to prison in 1939. But during the German occupation"
"To Catch a Killer To Catch a Killer is a two-part television film from 1992, directed by Eric Till and starring Brian Dennehy and Michael Riley. It is based on the true story of the pursuit of American serial killer John Wayne Gacy. As he investigates the missing person report of a teenager named Chris Gant (based on Gacy's genuine final victim, Robert Piest), Des Plaines, IL detective Lt. Joe Kozenczak (Riley) becomes concerned that local businessman John Wayne Gacy (Dennehy) may be responsible for this as well as many other disappearances. However, when he and his team are ready"
"is Born"", Grant believed that his film career was over, and briefly left the industry. In 1955, Grant agreed to star opposite Grace Kelly in ""To Catch a Thief"", playing a retired jewel thief nicknamed ""The Cat"", living in the French Riviera. Grant and Kelly worked well together during the production, which was one of the most enjoyable experiences of Grant's career. He found Hitchcock and Kelly to be very professional, and later stated that Kelly was ""possibly the finest actress I've ever worked with"". Grant was one of the first actors to go independent by not renewing his studio"
"of perfectly matched stars in Cary Grant and Grace Kelly."" Robert Burks won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, while Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson, Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams were nominated for Best Art Direction, and Edith Head was nominated for Best Costume Design. In 2002, American Film Institute included the film in AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions (#46). To Catch a Thief In May 2018, it was announced that Viacom was set to adapt the film as a Spanish-language television series. The pattern of a string of jewel robberies on the French Riviera causes the police to believe"
"Château de la Croix des Gardes Château de la Croix des Gardes, also known as ""Villa Perrier"", is a mansion in the La Croix-des-Gardes district of Cannes on the French Riviera. It appears as the Sandford Villa in the Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film ""To Catch a Thief"", with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. It was built in 1919 for the Swiss industrialist Paul Girod, with a nearly 13,000-square-foot interior and 25 acres of gardens. The mansion was built in a Medici style, and the gardens were designed in a matching Italianate style. In 1960, it was purchased by Gustave Leven,"
"The Thief (1952 film) The Thief is a 1952 American film noir crime film directed by Russell Rouse and starring Ray Milland. The film is noted for having no spoken dialogue; the only dialogue present in the film is represented through closeup shots of two telegrams. Ray Milland plays Dr. Allan Fields, a nuclear physicist who works for the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C.. But Fields is also a spy working for an unnamed foreign power. Through an elaborate series of plans and devices (""tradecraft""), Fields, as ordered by his ""case officer"", takes sets of photos of top-secret documents,"
"comedy. Trevor Howard and Tom Courtenay seem more at home with the spy spoof material."" To Catch a Spy To Catch a Spy is a 1971 comedy spy film directed by Dick Clement and starring Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard, Richard Pearson, Garfield Morgan, Angharad Rees and Robert Raglan. It was written by Clement and Ian La Frenais. It was a co-production between Britain, the United States and France, which was filmed in Bucharest, Romania. It was also part filmed on Loch Awe and Loch Etive, Scotland, where the gunboat scenes were filmed, and featured Kirk Douglas running through"
"To Catch a Spy To Catch a Spy is a 1971 comedy spy film directed by Dick Clement and starring Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard, Richard Pearson, Garfield Morgan, Angharad Rees and Robert Raglan. It was written by Clement and Ian La Frenais. It was a co-production between Britain, the United States and France, which was filmed in Bucharest, Romania. It was also part filmed on Loch Awe and Loch Etive, Scotland, where the gunboat scenes were filmed, and featured Kirk Douglas running through a herd of Highland cattle which were owned by David Fellowes. It was also released"
"(""Golden Night""). In his 77-year career he appeared in more than 200 films. Charles Vanel Charles-Marie Vanel (21 August 1892 – 15 April 1989) was a French actor and director. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's ""Jim Crow"", and is perhaps best remembered for his role as a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's acclaimed ""The Wages of Fear"", a film that won both the Golden Bear and Palme d'Or in 1953. In Hitchcock's 1955 film, ""To Catch a Thief"", he played a restaurateur who had served in the French Resistance with Cary Grant. Later in his"
"Layton who played guard Jacob Hall who fought Edmund Purdom. According to MGM records the film earned only $478,000 in the US and Canada and $1,071,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss to the studio of $707,000. The ""Los Angeles Times"" called it ""glittering and excellently made."" The King's Thief The King's Thief is a 1955 swashbuckling CinemaScope adventure film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who replaced Hugo Fregonese during filming. Released on August 5, 1955, the film takes place in London at the time of Charles II and stars Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, David Niven, George Sanders and Roger Moore."
"Dan Tobin, Dean Miller, and Movita. The character of ""Princess Tarji"" was slightly resurrected in one of Sheldon's ""I Dream of Jeannie"" TV episodes, ""This Is Murder"" (4/9/66), portrayed by Gila Golan. Shortly after the release of this film, Cary Grant went into a self-imposed retirement from acting, subsequently turning down many film offers including ""Sabrina"", in which he would have co-starred with Audrey Hepburn and ""A Star Is Born"" with Judy Garland. In 1955, director Alfred Hitchcock persuaded Grant to return to films with his classic thriller ""To Catch a Thief"". Businessman Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) breaks his engagement"
"The Sea Chase The Sea Chase is a 1955 World War II drama film starring John Wayne and Lana Turner, and featuring David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, and Tab Hunter. It was directed by John Farrow from a screenplay by James Warner Bellah and John Twist based on the novel of the same name by Andrew Geer. The plot is a nautical cat and mouse game, with Wayne determined to get his German freighter home during the first few months of the war, all the while being chased by British and Australian naval ships. The film was shot in Warner Color"
"their chances in life together, emerge as the only members of the gang to come out ahead. Seven Thieves Seven Thieves is a 1960 20th Century Fox film noir crime drama motion picture shot in CinemaScope. It stars Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins and Eli Wallach. Directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Sydney Boehm, it was adapted for the screen by Sydney Boehm, based on the novel ""The Lions At The Kill"" by Max Catto. Technical advisor was Candy Barr, who, as choreographer, taught dance routines to Collins. ""Seven Thieves"" received an Academy Award nomination for Best"
"produced a second series character, expatriate private investigator and tough-guy adventurer Al Colby, who first appears in ""The Long Escape"" (Random House, 1948). After two more well-received Colby books in 1949 and 1950, Dodge abandoned series characters and focused on stand-alone suspense adventures set in exotic locales around the world; ""To Catch a Thief"" was Dodge's greatest career success, primarily due to the fact the Alfred Hitchcock purchased film rights before the novel was even published in 1952 and turned it into the 1955 Paramount film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. For the remainder of his career, Dodge alternated"
"Seven Thieves Seven Thieves is a 1960 20th Century Fox film noir crime drama motion picture shot in CinemaScope. It stars Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger, Joan Collins and Eli Wallach. Directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Sydney Boehm, it was adapted for the screen by Sydney Boehm, based on the novel ""The Lions At The Kill"" by Max Catto. Technical advisor was Candy Barr, who, as choreographer, taught dance routines to Collins. ""Seven Thieves"" received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design Black-and-White (Bill Thomas). A discredited expatriate American professor, Theo Wilkins (Edward G. Robinson), has called"
"You're Never Too Young You’re Never Too Young is a 1955 American semi-musical comedy film starring the team of Martin and Lewis, released on August 25, 1955 by Paramount Pictures, and co-starring Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, and Raymond Burr. The film was directed by Norman Taurog. A valuable diamond is stolen at a Los Angeles hotel and a man guarding it is killed. The thief, Noonan, hides it from police, first in the jacket of a customer, Bob Miles, and then in the pocket of a barber's apprentice, Wilbur Hoolick. Wilbur, boarding a train to go home to Blitzen, Washington,"
"was developed from the saloon platform, it suffered from rigidity compromises despite extra side members in the chassis. The gearbox ratios were changed, and from 1954 an overdrive unit became standard. The gearchange lever was column-mounted. A true open 2-seater, there were no external door handles or wind-up windows. Very few of these cars are ever seen on the big screen. However, a sapphire blue Alpine featured prominently in the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film ""To Catch a Thief"" starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. More recently, the American PBS show ""History Detectives"" tried to verify that an Alpine roadster owned"
"Soldier of Fortune (1955 film) Soldier of Fortune is a 1955 adventure film about the rescue of an American prisoner in the People's Republic of China in the 1950s. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk, starred Clark Gable and Susan Hayward, and was written by Ernest K. Gann based on his 1954 novel. Jane Hoyt arrives in Hong Kong, looking for her husband, thrill-seeking photojournalist Louis. She attracts the eye of shady shipping magnate Hank Lee. With his help, she learns that Louis entered Communist China and was imprisoned as a suspected spy. She decides to arrange his escape. Hank"
"Once a Thief (1950 film) Once a Thief is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by W. Lee Wilder starring Cesar Romero, June Havoc, Marie McDonald and Lon Chaney Jr.. Margie Moore (Havoc), a down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turns in desperation to jewel robbery. She barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Her troubles start again, however, when she falls madly in love with smooth-talking Mitch Foster (Romero). Mitch reveals his true colors by stealing every penny she has, then turning her into the authorities."
"The Burglar The Burglar is a 1957 crime thriller film noir released by Columbia Pictures, based on the 1953 novel of the same name by David Goodis (who also wrote the script). The picture stars Dan Duryea in the titular role and Jayne Mansfield. The movie was directed by Paul Wendkos, who would later go on to helm the pilot for the original ""Hawaii Five-O"" TV series. Professional burglar Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea) and his two associates, Baylock (Peter Capell) and Dohmer (Mickey Shaughnessy), set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah (Phoebe Mackay), who has inherited a fortune—including a"
"To Catch a Thief In May 2018, it was announced that Viacom was set to adapt the film as a Spanish-language television series. The pattern of a string of jewel robberies on the French Riviera causes the police to believe that the infamous jewel thief John ""The Cat"" Robie (Cary Grant) has left his comfortable retirement of growing grapes and flowers. He gives the police the slip at his hilltop villa. Robie visits a restaurant. The staff are his old gang, paroled for their work in the French Resistance during World War II as long as they keep clean. Bertani,"
"film ""Foolish Wives"" although it was filmed in California. The casino featured in the James Bond films ""Never Say Never Again"" (1983), and ""GoldenEye"" (1995). ""To Catch a Thief"" (1954) was an Alfred Hitchcock film with Monte Carlo and its famous casino as the setting and featured Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, the future Princess Grace of Monaco, as the stars. There is a scene in the movie where the-then Grace Kelly drives a car very quickly—and dangerously—along the steep winding roads of Monaco that surround the heights of Monte Carlo; an interesting coincidence to her actual fate in 1982."
"and interior features in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, ""World (The Price of Love)"". More famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film ""To Catch a Thief"" starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy ""There's a Girl in My Soup"" and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning"
"1954 while filming ""To Catch a Thief"", and that Hitchcock hoped to have John Michael Hayes write the screenplay. Hepburn was an admirer of Hitchcock's work and had long wanted to appear in one of his films. Samuel A. Taylor, scenarist for ""Vertigo"" and ""Topaz"", wrote the screenplay after Ernest Lehman rejected it. The Taylor screenplay included a scene, not in the original novel, where the heroine disguises herself as a prostitute and has to fend off a rapist. Hepburn left the film, partly because of the near-rape scene, but primarily due to a pregnancy. (Hepburn suffered a miscarriage during"
"Charles Vanel Charles-Marie Vanel (21 August 1892 – 15 April 1989) was a French actor and director. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's ""Jim Crow"", and is perhaps best remembered for his role as a desperate truck driver in Clouzot's acclaimed ""The Wages of Fear"", a film that won both the Golden Bear and Palme d'Or in 1953. In Hitchcock's 1955 film, ""To Catch a Thief"", he played a restaurateur who had served in the French Resistance with Cary Grant. Later in his career he would act alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo (""Magnet of Doom"") and Klaus Kinski"
"Thief (film) Thief is a 1981 American neo-noir crime film written, produced and directed by Michael Mann in his feature film debut. It is based on the 1975 novel ""The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar"" by ""Frank Hohimer"" (the pen name of real-life jewel thief John Seybold). The film stars James Caan the titular thief, a professional safecracker trying to escape his life of crime, and Tuesday Weld as his girlfriend. The supporting cast includes Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Dennis Farina, and Robert Prosky. The original musical score was composed and performed by Tangerine Dream. Frank (James Caan)"
"Run for Cover (film) Run for Cover is a 1955 Technicolor Western film directed by Nicholas Ray and starring James Cagney, Viveca Lindfors, John Derek, and in his final film, Jean Hersholt. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, this film was made in VistaVision. Matt Dow meets young cowboy Davey Bishop for the first time. As they take turns shooting at a hawk, a train that has recently been robbed goes by. Mistaking it for an attack by train robbers, a bag of money is tossed from the train toward the two men. Dow and Davey take the money to town, where"
"Allen, had his eyes shut, too.)"" The film was a box office flop. A Bullet for Joey A Bullet for Joey is a 1955 film noir directed by Lewis Allen and starring Edward G. Robinson and George Raft.| The picture involves a gangster who sneaks into Canada to kidnap a scientist for the communists. The supporting cast features Audrey Totter, Peter Van Eyck, George Dolenz, and Peter Hansen. Communist agents in Canada are spying on Dr. Carl Macklin, an atomic physicist whose knowledge they want. To kidnap him, Eric Hartman, the party's top man in Montreal, offers $100,000 to a"
"He wrote, ""Russell Rouse (""The Oscar"") directs and co-writes this unique but tedious spy/Red Scare thriller set in New York City ... What we get is a tense mood piece through the excellent dark visuals delivered by cinematographer Sam Leavitt. It shows a lonely and alienated unsympathetic man on-the-run, who is trapped in a shadowy world of chaos but is not fleshed out in his character so we never become concerned with his plight as a human interest story."" The Thief (1952 film) The Thief is a 1952 American film noir crime film directed by Russell Rouse and starring Ray"